nyseides's "figure out my fav phd's list of favourite things"

A few of my favourite things, not exclusive and in no particular order, are shiraz (in winter), tiramisu (which I haven’t figured out yet where to find in Vancouver), Susan Sontag’s cultural essays, Robert Doisneau’s Paris, Woody Allen’s Manhattan, Whit Stillman’s trilogy, P.T. Anderson’s frogs, Guu, chess and pool (though not exceptionally good at either), India, Sinatra (late at night), everything by Charlie Kaufman, basil-arugula-cilantro, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, new swing (which isn’t so new anymore), semiotics, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Herbert, Tricky, Portishead, the west coast of Mexico, women in single piece black bathing suits, chardonnay (in summer), lonely moonlit beaches and, of course, forbidden pleasures.